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Originally Posted by legendsport

from the Miami Register, September 2, 1906:

The first units of the reported 10,000-man army of Lt. General Robert E.L. Stuart arrived in Havana this morning. According to a military spokesman, "an army of this size will take some time to coalesce. It takes a lot of supplies to support a force this big in the field, and it's all coming from Tampa."

Indeed, the horizon off the coast is filled with the ships of the C.S. Navy, including the large battleship CSS Alabama and the new cruiser CSS Franklin Buchanan. The spokesman indicated that the large ships would be capable of providing fire support to any mission along the coast and that the rebels were "lucky that the CSS Virginia doesn't launch til November." The Viriginia is the pet project of President Pritchard - a battleship larger and more powerful than the recent British super-ship, HMS Dreadnought.

With the Marines, the Army units already on the island when the rebellion started, and Stuart's force, the Confederacy will have over 15,000 men under arms with which to fight the rebels. According to Stuart's spokesman, "this operation will be over by October 1." Grim news for the self-proclaimed revolutionaries.

didn't they say that about Vietnam too in our world?